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Tag Archives: Within
In A Dissonance Theory
In A Dissonance Theoryby Michael DoyleWhat if…What if is the beginningAs good as any beginningOr so it often seemsThe waking is stuff of dreamsAnd dreams bring as much truthAs that which we are toldAll the bill of goods that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Beginning, Bill of Goods, Conception, Cost, Create, Diamond, Discomfort, Dissonance Theory, Dreams, Flow, Freedom, Illusions, Imagination, Inside, Intrusion, Limit, Live Stream, Lost, Maze, On Demand, Panned, Paradigm, Personal History, Poetry and Poems, Point, Questions, Real Worth, Set Free, Success, Told, Truth, What If, Within
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Thought For the Day: Declares the Lord: I Will Put My Law Within Them, and I Will Write It On Their Hearts…I Will Be Their God, and They Shall Be My People
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall … Continue reading
Pressure Put On Coal
Pressure Put On Coalby Michael DoyleLike a herd of deer comes crashing inFalling like a gift from the skyFalling like snowflakes as it’s Christmas againAnd the angels sing their hallelujah replySnow clouds form again and yet there is no snowStill, … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Air, Angels, Authenticity, Christmas, Coal, Crash, Diamonds, Drift, Fall, Fit the Part, Form, Gift, Given, Glow, Good For the Soul, Hallelujah, Happiness, Hard Pressure, Heart, Herd, Innermost, Integrity, Jolliness, Living, Love, Mirth, Nine Reindeer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pressure, Said, Sing, Sky, Sleep, Snow, Snow Clouds, Snowflakes, Songs, Truth, Warmth, Within
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The Chi Within All
The Chi Within Allby Michael DoyleIt matters not, woman or manEach is to yield chi as they canIt is not for a father to sayWhich is who and what’s the wayThere in the essence of controlWhere one’s power finds one’s … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Become, Behalf, Best, Beware, Breath, Chi, Darkness, Death, Disruption, Edge, Essence, Father, Firm, Foretold, Harshness, Honor, Imperial Throne, Know, Life, Light, Man, Matters, Phoenix, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Right, Road, Shadows, Shapeshift, Shrine, Sould, Talk, Test, The Way, Walk, Warrior, Witch, Within, Woman
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Having Heard the Warning
Further reflections on my eldest daughter turning 13: Heaving Heard the Warning by Michael Doyle On Saturday night as I kissed you into sleep There was a part of me that wanted to keep This moment forever as a sacred … Continue reading
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Tagged Adult, All Good, All of Your Charms, All of Your Days, Always Been, Beautiful, Blue, Blur, Born, Bow, By Example, By-Word, Camera's Eye, Catch You Safely, Change, Childhood, Come, Crystal, Cuddle, Daughter, Do All Things, Each Moment, Each Year, Enchant, Every Word, Eyes, Fade, Fear, First, First Beams, First Light, Five More Years, Forever, Given, Go, God, Goodbye To Childhood, Greatest Gift, Greatest Truth, Happy, Hard To Write, Having Heard, heartbeat, Hello, Hid Behind, Hold My Hand, Human Beings, I Will Be there, If You Stumble, Just A Bit, Keep, Kissed, Known To A Man, Label, Last, Let Go, Let You, Life Can Be Tough, Life's Story, Little Girl, Lived, Living, Look Forward, Looked Up, Loving His Daughter, Magical, Measure, Memories, Moment, More Precious, More To Me, Morning, Most Favorite, My Arms, My Heart, North Star, Not Easy, One of My Two, Part, Part of Me, Persevere, Photography, Play, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Realm, Reflection, Revere, Sacred Prayer, Sacred Treasure, Sad, Sail Into, Saturday Night, See Me Cry, Sleep, Smile, Society, Some Young Man, Soulful, Special, Sunday, Sunrise, Teaching You, Teaching You To live, Tears In My Eyes, Tears of Love, The Days Have Passed, The Warning, To Let Go, To Let Me Know, Turning 13, Unafraid, Uncharted Territory, Understand, Warning, Watch the Movie, Watched, Were, Within, Words, Wrapped, You Are, You Love Me, You Ought, Young Heart, Young Lady, Your Father, Your Own
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Thought For the Day: The Man Who Has Begun To Live More Seriously Within Begins To Live More Simply Without
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” – Ernest Hemingway, author, journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)
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Tagged Begun, Ernest Hemingway, Live, Man, More Seriously, Thought For the Day, Within, Without
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From Darkness To Light
Spent an interesting day learning, seeking and then seeing and then simply being … Or maybe, it was more like several hours in 90+ degrees photographing left me more just taking it all in while conveniently clicking to take photos … Continue reading
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Tagged Authenticity, Awaken, Baggage, Being, Beyond, Blown Fuse, Blues, Carry On, Cosmos, Crevices, Dark, Darkness, Day Trip, Deal, Death, Dedicate, Destination, Destiny, Discover, Done, Doors, Ducklings, Enough, Eternal, Eventuality, Exquisite, Find, Forgetfulness, Found, Freed, Freedom, Gain, God, Greater Consciousness, Human, Ignorance, Immortality, Incessant, Interesting Day, Journey, Keys, Kingdom, Knowledge, Learn, Less Me, Light, Live, Locks, Luck, Mirror, More and More, Mother Duck, Need, Night, One, Open Doors, Park Pond, Part, Perception, Perfected, Photograph, Photographing, Pick, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Quiet, Realization, Reflection, Remember, Remember When, Reunite, Right, Rocks, Scurry, Search, Seeing, Seem, Set Free, Shake, Share, Show, Shrug, Simplicity, Simply, Soul, Star Stuff, Swim, Takes, Tangled, Think, Thinking Back, Times, Truth, Unreal, Untarnished, Web, When, Wholeness, Wiser, Within, World, Young Ducklings, Zen
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Jesus Wept (Ephphatha)
God took the form of man and lived experiencing all that we do. In so doing, He experienced all of our feelings. Based in part on John 11:38: Jesus Wept (Ephphatha) by Michael Doyle One of the best secrets never … Continue reading
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Tagged Agony, Angst, Beyond, Blood, Brokenness, Cacophony, Childbirth, Circle, Clear, Comfort, Convey, Courage, Deaf, Dealt, Deep, Deeply, Depth, Deserve, Despite, Divinity, Ears, Earth, Eden, Embrace, Ephphatha, Experience, Fallen, Family, Father, Feeling, Felt, Garden, Gethsemane, Glimpse, God, Grief, Groan, Hear, Heaven, Home, Hope, Humanity, Jesus, John, Loss, Lost, Man, Measure, Melody, Memory, Mercy, Mirth, Miss, Moan, Mortal, Move, Mud, Open, Outspokenness, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, Regain, Relief, Remember, Secret, Sin, Sound, Steady, Storm Cloud, Symphony, Teach, Tears, Touch, True North, Truth, Vain, Way, Wept, Within, Words, Worth
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Let Us Begin
So many promises of the 20th century have led to false starts, broken hearts and the horror of confronting the results of our delusions. Let Us Begin by Michael Romani In pursuit of stronger minds Do we risk leaving souls … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Agree, Begin, Biology, Blind, Calculated Risk, Cold, Demanding, Distance, Divinity, Eugenics, Expectation, False Start, Game, GMO, Grasp, Journey, Justify, Less Traveled, Manipulate, Master, Melt, Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Risk, Road, Roll, Seldom, Soul, Strong, Timothy Leary, Told, Travel, Travesty, Truth, Understanding, Unravel, Us, Vilify, Weary, Within
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The Healing Acceptance of Self
A poem of humility and gratitude # 12: The Healing Acceptance of Self by Michael Romani With gratitude, I accept myself No longer looking for answers from a shelf But, seeking instead to find peace from within Behind that wall … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Accept, Alone, Answers, Awake, Blade, Burn, Child, Christ, Cobblestone, Comfort, Compulsion, Confusion, Constant, Cut, Discovery, Divine, Drama, Drown, Dysfunction, Eternity, Fade, Family, God, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Heart, History, Humanity, Humility, Illusion, Love, Magic, Memory, Moment, Night, Pain, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Question, Rain, Reality, Recovery, Sand, Scheme, Self, Self Affliction, Serenity, Shadow, Silence, Sin, Soul, Steps, Tears, Time, Trap, Trauma, Unfinished Business, Victim, Wall, Warm, Within
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